Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 413 § 413.223 — was enacted into law by

was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 413 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation. Note: Sections 1 and 5, chapter 601, Oregon Laws 2019, provide: Sec. 1. (1) The Oregon Health Authority, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall select 10 school districts or education service districts to receive planning grants for district planning and technical assistance. Each district receiving a grant, beginning on or after July 1, 2019, and concluding before July 1, 2021, shall: (a) Evaluate the need for school-based health services in their respective communities; and (b) Develop a plan that addresses the need identified in paragraph (a) of this subsection by drafting a proposal for a school-based health center as defined in ORS 413.225 or by designing a pilot program as described in subsection (5)(b) of this section to test an alternative approach to providing school-based health services. (2) Each grantee shall consult with a nonprofit organization with experience in organizing community projects, or a local organization that coordinates with a statewide nonprofit organization, to facilitate the planning process and to provide technical assistance. (3) Each grantee shall solicit community participation in the planning process, including the participation of the local public health authority, any federally qualified health centers located in the district, a regional health equity coalition, if any, serving the district and every coordinated care organization with members residing in the district. (4) The Oregon Health Authority may contract with a statewide nonprofit organization with experience in supporting school-based health centers to create tools and provide support to grantees during the community engagement and planning process. (5) At the conclusion of the two-year planning process, the authority shall select up to 10 entities in respective grantee school districts or education service districts to receive operating funds to either: (a) Open a state-certified school-based health center, based on a school-based health center funding formula; or (b) Pilot, for a five-year period, an approach to providing school-based health services as an alternative model to the school-based health center model. The alternative approach pilot programs may be designed to focus services on a specific community need, such as a need for mental health services, school nursing services, dental services, primary care or trauma-informed services, and may: (A) Involve a partnership with a coordinated care organization, a federally qualified health center, a local public health authority or another major medical sponsor; and (B) Identify a process for billing insurance, medical assistance or another third-party payer, or identify other funding, for the cost of services. (6) By the end of the fourth year of the five-year period described in subsection (5)(b) of this section: (a) Each school district or education service district piloting an alternative approach to providing school-based health services either commits to establish a school-based health center or proposes an alternative model to the authority and the Legislative Assembly. (b) The authority may use the data collected and the recommendations of the school districts to adopt rules establishing flexible, outcome-based criteria for certification of the alternative approaches developed and implemented by the grantees piloting alternative models under subsection (5)(b) of this section. (7) As used in this section, “regional health equity coalition” means a coalition that: (a) Is independent of coordinated care organizations and government agencies, community-led, cross-sector and focused on addressing rural and urban health inequities for communities of color, Oregon’s federally recognized Indian tribes, immigrants, refugees, migrant and seasonal farm workers, low-income populations, persons with disabilities and persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning, with communities of color as the priority; (b) May include as member organizations a federally recognized Indian tribe, a culturally specific organization, a social service provider, a health care organization, a public health research organization, a behavioral health organization, a private foundation or a faith-based organization; (c) Develops governance structures that include members of communities impacted by health inequities; (d) Has a decision-making body on which more than half of the persons are self-identified persons of color and more than half of the persons experience health inequities; (e) Prioritizes selection of organizational representatives who are self-identified persons of color or have a role related to health equity; (f) Operates on a model that honors community wisd